The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-10


borne, the death watch, to his cell The
Anarchist wanted TO talk just to relieve the
horrible tedium. He talked earnestly and
at considerable length. Mr.. Osborne said
Spies and the others had strong hopes that
the Governor would intercede and prevent
their execution. Spies, Mr.. Osborne said,
regarded himself as an apostle of
the poor and downtrodden His
position toward social order, he thought,
was much like the one John Brown occu-
pied in behalf of the negro slaves. Were he
put to death, coming generations would rise
up and lament the execution, and his name
would be an honored one among the worlds
martyrs. Spies, Mr.. Osborne said, fully be-
heves this.
BEGGED TO SIGN A PETITION.
At 2:40 o'clock this afternoon the follow
ing telegram was received by Parsons in
Jail:
Sign Immediately the petition have prepared
for you and get Engel and Fischer to sign.
Everything may depend upon this-your lives
and others-the public. For Gods sake sign,
and wire me at once w. 7. BLACK.
Parsons at once declared the communica-
tion to be fraud, as did also Fischer but
Engel said he would sign if the others did.
The dispatch was dated Springfield, and
was filed at O'Clock this afternoon.
Bread dealers on the North Side have re
HuSobtu Hueu CuSUOHlcio W Du1 CIOuSn
bread tomorrow to last them until Satur-
day. This is because the German bakers
refuse to work on the day of the execution,
ana are going to make it a holiday, i'll ac-
cordance with the resolution adopted by
the Central Labor Union at their last meet
ing.
A RAMBLING EDITORIAL.
The Arboter Zeitung to-day, in a long ar
ticle about the condemned men, says:
''Should there be any plans for disturbance
during the probable murder of our con-
demned men, we hereby request the respec-
tive persons, not only in our own name, but
in the name of Mrs Parsons-who has given
up her husband for lost and taken leave of
him forever-that they may desist from
carrying them out. When the trap
with our martyrs drops that sound shall be
heard throughout the wide land, free from
alloy with anything else. The people of
murderers, the majority of whom even
now stand by in dumb, stupid apathy and
listen to the money rabble saying; Their
blood comes upon us and upon our chill
dren.' This people of murderers shall
be brought to an understanding
of what it is doing in numbering
ours and its best men. Who ever
wants to show on Friday that he looks upon
the struggling of our condemned men as a
murder, murder for robbery committed
by robbers upon the defenders of their VIC
Tins. let them do as according to the bibli-
cal legend, the children of Israel did when
the angel of death went through Egypt
Let them go and by Grape on their door
indicate how they feel. Let every
body remain at home on Friday !;
may the metropolis in sombre silence con-
template the work which the rulers propose
to do; may it be so still that even those who
at the order of the societies should try to
make disturbance may not dare do So"
PLEAS BEFORE GOV. oGLEsBY.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, Nov 9-The Chicago
delegation to intercede with Gov. Oglesby
in behalf of the condemned Anarchists ar
rived here this morning. The Chicago Am
neSty Association is represented by Messrs.
H. L. Oliver, E. A. Stevens and j. R.
Buchanan, of the Labor Enquirer. These
gentlemen had a set of petitions of their
own and presented them to the Governor at
their interview this morning. Prof. Will
liam Salter and d. j. Lloyd had set OF
petitions which they laid before
Gov. .sOglesby after the first interview was
finished Capt Black had sole~charge of
the main petitions, and of these there were
so many that it required a separate trunk
to convey them here. Mr.. Buchanan, who
made an estimate of all the petitions sent in
from all parts of the country, says that
there are eleven miles of names begging
for clemency. The delegation of labor peo-
pie from New York consists of j. E. Quinn,
Samuel Gempers, L. j. Ferrell and Edward
King. 1t is claimed that they alone have
petitions with 100000 names attached.
IN THE RECEPTION ROOM.
On account of the rain and bad weather
the delegation, which was to start for the
State house at . o'clock, was delayed until
little after that hour. The doors of the
Governors reception room were thrown
open at 9:40 o'clock and the different COM
mittees filed in. There were nearly 100 per-
sons present when they were all assembled.
The relatives of the condemned sat in
semi-circIe to the left of the speaker. Capt.
Black began by reading a general petition
which had been signed by the men them
selves, and when he closed he said: "ThiS
has been signed by Michael Schwab,
Samuel Fielden and August Spies. The
reason that the accused Parsons, Fischer,
Engel and Lingg did not append their
claimed they had forwarded to your excel
lency their autograph letters, and did not
think it necessary to sign this"
Capt Black presented an affidavit from
Otis Favar, business man of Chicago,
tending to show that the jury which
tried the Anarchists had been deliberately
packed against them by bailiff.
CAPT BLACKS SPEECH.
After reading the petition and affidavit
Capt. Black addressed the Governor. He
explained every effort that had been made
to comply with the requirements of the law
governing the application for the interpos-
ing of executive clemency and stated that
Judge Gary and States Attorney Grinnell
had ioined in the recommendation for
clemency for Fielden and Schwab. Having
disposed of the more formal parts of the APP
plication he made an eloquent and touching
appeal for mercy that brought tears to the
ewes of many of his auditors.
Gen. Trumbull followed Capt Black and
simply asked for mercy in plain and unpre-
tentious terms.
Mrs Cora L. " Richards, representative
of the Amnesty Association, was the next
speaker She had evidently carefully pre-
pared for the occasion, and spoke without
hesitation aud we'll She argued that pub
lie policy and justice were opposed to capi-
tih punishment generally, and pleaded
earnestly and eloquently for the wives
mothers and children of the condemned.
Hon. L. NJ Haines, of Waukegon. fol
lowed He asked for Communication of sem
tence on the grounds of justice and public
policy His address was characteristic,
and amused rather than convinced.
Senator Streeter, of the Legislative Com
mittee, was the next speaker. He was
brief. and an adjournment until 2 o'clock
this afternoon followed his address
At II o'clock the morning session was
over and the friends OF the Anarchists ad-
iourned to the Leland hotel to settle upon